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Anne Stevenson Quotes

American - Poet | -

Many varieties of sonnet, of course, have been written over the ages.

Over Been Course Sonnet Many Ages

I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.

Science Art Criticism Help Never

A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.

Poetry Thinking Feelings Human Poem

Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as a young poet, and the American, Robert Frost.

Me American Young More Always Poet

Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.

Poetry You Weight Slowly Word Bears

I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century.

Live I Am Seventy Now See Come

I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.

Marriage Myself Poetry Book Tragedy

I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.

Words Poetry Canvas Just Like Were

I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless.

Life Family Poetry Believe Rules

I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas.

Work Me Ideas Memorable Original

I married a young Englishman in Cambridge in 1955 and have lived in Britain every since.

Young Lived Cambridge Married Every

I play with language a great deal in my poems, and I enjoy that. I try to condense language, that is, I try to express complicated but I hope real emotions as simply as possible. But that doesn't mean the poems are simple, just that they are as truthful as I can make them.

Hope Great Simple Language Enjoy

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